\monster{The Children of Ether: Too Much, Too Soon}
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\quot{``There are things man was not meant to know. It is interesting that we seek to know as much about these as possible.''}

\desc{Humanity's greatest survival trait, indeed the one which has ensured our ascent to power, is a willingness to improve upon our environment -- the closest environment being our own flesh and bones. The desire to gain greater abilities overwhelms all else sometimes, even personal ethics, self-preservation, and basic sanity. Man is first and foremost a tool using creature, but when he treats himself as a tool, is he still a man?}

\desc{The Children of Ether are born when a Luminary is subject to the (nominally successful) experiments of scientists and practitioners of medicine to improve the human form beyond what it already has -- and usually, this Luminary is both subject and creator of the experiment. They rarely have any familiarity or experience with the supernatural beforehand, and simply stumble through the veil of normality by ``accident.'' The transformational event bestows efficiency and power on the human form and mind that brings it beyond mortal limitations, including impressive strength and will -- at the cost of sanity and self.}

\desc{The drugs or procedures done to bring a Child of Ether to the point they now are aren't just unwise -- they're \emph{lethal}. If you did that to an Extra they'd just die. It is in no small part the strength of the Luminary's dreams that force them onward through certain death and into power and madness. The ritual to regain Power Points involves continuing to do more of that to themselves. What's better than a lethal dose of mercury-based super serum? \emph{More} mercury-based super serum. It is not a all weird for a Child of Ether who has been at it for a while to bleed clear liquid, sand, or even tiny grubs.}

\noindent \desc{A Child of Ether has an Astral power source and a Ritual power schedule.}

\desc{\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item \ability{Child of Ether Starting Disciplines}
    \item
    \item - Core Discipline: Obfuscation -
\end{list}
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    \item Hide From Notice (Basic Obfuscation)
    \item Mask of a Thousand Faces (Basic Obfuscation)
\end{list}

\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item
    \item - Basic Disciplines -
\end{list}
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    \item Supernatural Senses (Basic Auspex)
    \item Curse of Failure (Basic Trail of Tears)
    \item Clinging (Basic Potence)
    \item Revive the Flesh (Basic Fortitude)
\end{list}

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    \item
    \item - Advanced Disciplines -
\end{list}
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    \item Dark Night of the Soul (Advanced Trail of Tears)
    \item Vanish From the Mind's Eye (Advanced Obfuscation)
\end{list}}

\inspiration{The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Norman Osbourne, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Bane}